Our Evaluation

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Possible Narborough/Huncote Locations

Here is a flickr link to my account where i have uploaded a few of the better photos that i have taken for possible locations around narborough for our music video, Originally i had around 50 photos and between us we have narrowed it down as on flicker we can only display around 20 higher quality photos before my account is full.

Flicker(Our Possible Locations)

Plans For Tomorrow...

As I can get home tomorrow for around 12 O’clock I think that I will be able to get out and find some possible locations and I will be to take some pictures of the locations that I feel that would be a good setting for our Music Video, once I have taken these pictures I will be able to upload these photos using Flicker and then I will give brief overviews of each setting and why I feel that the setting would be a good location to use. I will try to take a variety of shots in each location and experiment with different angles shot distance and lengths.

Website Creation Software Ideas

I have been thinking about the website creation software that we could use to create of bands website and I have looked at a few different pieces of software, some of the pieces of software i have looked at include

• Interspire Website Design, I feel that this software is very simple to use and easy to work with but i feel that if does not have enough features to create an effective opening page to a website, i also think that the cost of the software at $395.00 for the standard edition is too steep for a new band to be using and I feel that realistically they would probably not have to funding to use this software.
• Serif Webplus 10. I have looked into the features of this software and it seems that it would be very capable of creating a decent website for a starting band, and for only $9.99 it would be an ideal product to use for a new band that needs a start up site i feel that we could use this then eventually move to more advanced software to create a better site.
• Macromedia Dreamweaver C4. I have looked into this software and i feel that this software would be a very good investment as it is a very adequate website developments software and we already have access to this software also so it would be a good way to start with this software then improve software if we ever became mainstream. I also feel that this software would be the best to use as we already have a good knowledge and understanding about the features and how to operate this software so i feel that we could implement the best site to our ability using this software.

More Website Analysis

Snow Patrol Website

I have just looked at the website for snow patrol and again I have found it uses a three colour Palette and that the colours all contrast each other very well making all of the information stand out. I think that this is a very good tactic as the dark background makes the text stand out and the audience will be instantly drawn to the information. I fell that we could take idea and mould it for our website not Necessarily have the same colours but the same idea of having one main background colour then two contrasting colours for the text, I feel that if we did this type of layout then our website would be very effective because all our text and information about the band will stand out to our viewer. I also like the music playing on top of the site of the site as it gives the viewer a taste of new music from the band and upcoming tracks it also gives the band chance to see which of their songs are played more than others, this is a good idea as they can see how to aim their music at their audience. I feel that we could do this also as being a new band if we played our music when the website is opened then if the viewer just happened to stumble upon the site they might hear the music and possibly like it, this could then end up the viewer looking further into the band and possibly buying the song E.T.C.

The Femal Gaze

After our theory lesson on Laura Mulvey's theory of the female gaze i have thought about how we want our female character to come across, i have thought that we do not want our male audience to find our character more relatable than attractive so they are not losing the point of the song and its video. I also feel that our character should have an ivitational facial expression as even though she is upset and running away the audience can feel sorry or relate to our character.

Video Inspiration

This clip is an As media 1st draft and the song that they used was "Learn To Fly" By The Foo Fighters

From 00:50 To 00:55 As in the song that we have it has a part of the song where it says "The Look In Her Eyes" and i feel that while those lyrics are being said a shot like this could be a sort of transition from one shot to another, like in this scene.I also fell that this shot could be very stong as it could be used to show the hurt and pain in our charcters eyes, giving the audience a clear indication to how she is feeling.

Rhys.......

My Video Research

Tonight i have done some music video research and i have looked at a wide range of rock styles of music and their music videos. Artists that i have looked at consist of Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Metallica, WhiteSnake, Green Day E.T.C. and while looking at all these different groups i have noticed that not one video i have watched today has there been a whole video consiting of actors, there has always been shots of the band in the video to promote them. I feel that this may make our music video very different as we plan to have the whole video consisting of actors to tell our story and not any shots of the band. I fell this would work as the audience may not get to see the band but they may get into the story and keep watching, this would then give the band more advertisement because if they enjoyed the video and the music the audience would then go and research the band

..... Rhys

Our To-Do List

This is a list of the tasks we need to complete
. Blog Of Our Music Video Idea (DONE)
. Blog On Our Genre Of Music (DONE)
. Blog On Our Musics Target Audience (DONE)
. Blogs On Music Video Research (1 DONE)
. Blogs On Our Pitch (DONE)
. Upload Our Filmed Pitch (Not Done)
. Blogs On Band Website Research (Not Done)
. Blogs On CD Cover Research (Not Done)
. Blogs On Possible Distributors (Not Done)
. Blog On Website Initial Idea (Not Done)
. Blog On Possible Website Layouts/Colour Schemes (Not Done)
. Blog On CD Cover Ideas (Not Done)
. Blog On CD Coverf Layout/Colour Schemes (Not Done)
. Blog On Sterotypes Our Music Videos Will Follow (Not Done)

Rhys..........

More Music Video Research

This video i have researched is the song by Green Day 'When September Ends' again we feel that this song fall under the softer genre of rock and we also like it again because it tells a story throughout the music video. I like this videos especially as it is a very gripping video if you watch it as it has a very contradicting start and end. The start of the video has a young couple spending time together and both of them are happy, and as the video progresses the male is recruited into the army and, the effects that the army has on couples.

Rhys.......

Foo FIghters Research

I have looked into the band formed by former Nirvana drummer 'Dave Grohl' i have found at that like our music the band 'Foo Fighters' started out very small time again like our band. I have also found out that while 'Dave Ghrol' was still with the band 'Nirvana' he was constantly writing song and keeping them back from the band. When 'Nirvana' broke up 'Ghrol' went on in his career and kept writing songs, he then started to hand out free copies of his recorded music around to his friends and other people to get an awareness of his music. I Think this would be a good way of advertising our music so this could be a possible distribution method. Finally music distributors got hold of his sample music and called 'Ghrol' and sad they would like to help distribute his music this is when he formed the ban 'Foo Fighters'

I think that this would be good inspiration for our band as we can know that it is possible to cross over into the mainstream industry.

Rhys.....

Our Song Lyrics

This is a link to 'Scribed' Where we have uploaded our song lyrics

Runaway Without Notes

Rhys....

Music Distributor Research

We have chosen an underground distributor to distribute our music as we feel that it would be more realistic than trying to distribute with bigger music labels. At first we choose the independent distributor but after researching their organisation further we have found that they have not really been very active distributors in recent year so we then decided to go with another method we feel would be more successful we feel that if we distributed our music through Viral marketing sites such as Facebook, Myspace E.T.C. we feel that this way we can distribute our music freely and first create a fan base for our music. We feel this would be a more successful approach to distribution as once we have a fan base backing us it would be easier to get into the music distributing business as artists without backing are less likely to have their music distributed than artists with backing.

Rhys....

General Artist Website Layout

I have done some research into general website looks and layout for artists/bands that are the same genre of music as our band, i have looked at artists such as 'Sting', 'Rod Stewert' and mant more and i have found that there is a general layout that is common amung these sites i have found that the either the bakground of the actual site is a picture or there is a large picture of the band centered in the middle of the page so you instantly recongnise them when you lookat the site, there is also a common feature of tabs across the tops of the pages with things such as tour dates, ticket booking E.T.C., i think that we should style our site similar as these woth slight altercations, such as i think we should have large text in the centre of our page with an eye catching font to grab the viewers attention. If we can instantly grab the audiences attention at the instant they open he page then hopefuly they will continue to read on, I feel this would work better as the faces of the band would not be very well know so the audince might just click off the site.

I have also found that most of the sites i have looked at have followed a 'Three Colour Pallet' colour scheme where you have the main background one darker colour and then a very contrasting colour for the text, then the final colour is used for important links/news E.T.C.

Rhys...

Foo Fighters Website

http://www.foofighters.com

I have looked at the band 'The Foo Fighters' opening page to their website and i feel that the opening page to this site may be a little too simple as it is just a picture of them on stage and an E-Mail sign up box, i feel that we can take inspiration from this still thou as i think that the colour scheme of white and black works very well and I fell it is very eye catching and stands out. This is effective as it grabs the audiences attention and this is the target of our website page. I also like the tabs at the top of the site as it is easy to find an navigate thorough the site itself and from experience i know that if a website is harder to navigate then it is more likely the audience will click off of it, So i feel that we cold take some inspiration from the tabbed pages layout.

Rhys...

Our pitch today...

After doing our pitch today, it didn't go as expected and we have know had a long and hard thought about our media and we have know had a long think about what we are doing. We are still doing a music video but we have made the genre more specific and we have changed our target audience that we feel will appeal to our audience. After recieving a lot of advice today, we both feel that we are more clearer on who we are aiming our music video at and what the genre of the video is.

Jess...